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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in… — Charles Caleb Colton
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on… — Louie Gohmert
I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over… — Ridley Scott
It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s… — Mary Beard
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. — Jim Clyburn
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their… — Wilhelm Dilthey
Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your… — Ivy Lee
The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through… — Thomas Merton
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our… — Wes Jackson
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with… — Mary Oliver
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth
Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you… — Roy Keane
Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and… — Robert Sheckley
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free. — Joe Satriani
I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see… — Stephen Harper
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for… — Mark Steyn
It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for… — Dick Durbin
A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the… — Alexander Wang
I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much… — Alexander Wang
It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it. — Wayne Shorter
When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time.… — Joe Greene
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round… — Martin Parr
If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply… — Mark Dever

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